2021 REFLECTION !!

 This year has been a crazy but fun year for us. However, we were able to do a lot of fun things and make a lot of memories that we will treasure for the rest of our lives, such as year 8 camp, sports, vacations, Fiafia, and much more. Here are two of my favourite moments from this year.

Year 8 Camp:

As it was the last year, year 8 camp was a lot of fun and provided a lot of opportunities to bond with the other year 8s. During camp, I was able to gain a lot more confidence, as well as the ability to function as part of a team. It encouraged me and my friends to step up and out, and we learned a lot about each other as a result. Ax throwing was obviously one of my favourite activities. It was new to me, but I eventually got the hang of it:)

FiaFia:

FiaFia was undoubtedly fantastic. We were able to have our families watch us perform, and each of us students was able to demonstrate a few of the various traditional dances.  Like Tongan, Hip Hop, Fijian, Bollywood and many more.  I had the good fortune to be a member of the Tongan Girls. I was able to witness how others danced and learn a lot of new moves from all of the sessions, which was a lot of fun.

I had many memorable moments during my time at school, but these are the ones that I'll remember for the rest of my life. Despite the fact that Covid-19 disrupted several planned activities, we were able to complete the year with plenty of memories and friends.

Literacy Planet

Over the past few weeks we've been using Literacy planet. Literacy Planet provides a lot of fun things for us to enjoy. Literacy Planet is sort of like Maths whizz, we have to complete a decent amount of task and however much question we get right our prize is Gems and points. 

Gems + Points: Gems and points help us to do more tasks, and get a bit competitive aswell. Our teacher has access to see how many points we have and how well we did on our task. It's really cool because we all want to get first place, and to do that we need to do more task. 

Comprehension: Literacy provides us with heaps of tasks. Comprehensions being one of them. Literacy Planet will give us books for us to read, and 12 questions to answer. It really fun because we usually do is get one of our classmates to do the answers first, and submit answers that way we can see the right answers and get 100%.

Spelling:This site also gives us a decent amount of spelling tests along with a couple of games like Code Phrase, Battle Rocket and more. We each have to hear what word the person is saying and try to spell in correctly. I usually get it correct which is why its fun.

Grammar: Some of task gives us a focus for example Direct Speech, Metaphors, Question/Interrogation and more. It gives us questions like ' which is the only true statement ' & match the first part of each sentence with the second, its really fun.

More Task: These were just a few task Literacy Planet provides us with, theirs also Sight Words, Arcade Game, Phonics and we even get to design our characters which is fun. It also provides us with levels, for year 1's all the way up to year 11. Literacy has helped me with my grammar and more.

Attitude Talk !

 Today Team 5 were lucky enough to have a few people come and talk to us about Puberty. Jannah talked to the girls while Robbie and Charlie talked with all the boys. Jannah talked about how and when our body's develops and why it does. She also gave us a few tips on how we could prevent Bio and smelling weird. This was a very helpful talk as we are growing up and heading into our college years. We also played a few games, wrote questions on a piece of paper, just in case some of us were to shy to ask.  She also provided us a few things that may come in handy.

In The Zone

This is the school korero for the week. In The Zone. This includes, speak at the appropriate level, staying on task, my space my place, and in the zone online. And the Prefects and House Captains came of with this idea as well. Above this text and a few photos about each statement and piece of writing beside it.

Literacy Planet

This is what I've been upto during the past 2 or 3 weeks. Literacy Planet. This is a very fun educated site to go on, it helps with your reading, metaphors, punctuation etc. Already I've learnt a lot from this task. Basically you get your teacher or parent to set your account up. They then unlock task for you to master each day. If you get all the answer correct you get gems. In my class we see who is winning, so we make it to be like a competition which is fun but we do get competitive at times. I'm currently in 2nd place with 158 points and 234 gems. 

105 Year Old Running Breaks Record

This article was quite surprising, even the title "105-year-old runner sets world record" seemed strange. This was a fascinating essay to read. In a timing of 1 minute and 2 seconds, Julia Hawkins set a new world record in the 100m. This time was extremely nice to some people, like myself, but Julia was disappointed because she hoped to finish it in one minute.

If you're interested in reading more articles like this, click here for the LINK and have fun. Enjoy

New Zealand Couple Grow Worlds Biggest Potato

Because lately most of my blog posts have been about Te Reo and Maths, I decided to challenge myself and do a bit of literacy work. Because I wasn't able to join the literacy meets due to Extension classes, I chose to pick a few articles from Kiwi Kids News site. I got this article from the odd section of the site. This was about a couple in New Zealand who grew the worlds biggest potato in the world. I learnt that they weigh of there potato came up-to about 7.59kg. Enjoy

Here is the LINK to the site if you want to see more articles like this one.

TikTok Tipene

Today we had our Elective class. This is tiktok Tipene, this is a class where you get to show of your dance moves to everyone. We have heaps of laughs during these classes, and its very enjoyable. 

 

Ki Te aha ?

The question for this weeks Te Reo task is What for. In Maori each slide will say Im going to a place, in this case a beach. After that it said what for, and then for our task we had to figure out what word from our Kupu Hau would best fit in that sentence. We also had to this task Independently. Below is my comic strip that I have created for my create task, along with a voice over of me pronounce the phrases that I had learnt. You could find that on the last slide of the presentation.

Bryde's Whale: Extension Work

Because of this pandemic, we've been doing work online. Our theme is "Our Voice, Our Choice", but for our extension work we've been looking at endangered sea species, in this case the Bryde's whale. Above this text was our task for today. We had to list 3 facts about Bryde's Whales, and list 3 things on how we can help this specie not go extinct. Enjoy.

Fractions, Decimals, & Percentage.

If you were wondering why I've been posting heaps of maths slides, is because during our maths meets, our teacher put out a challenge, we had to finish all 17 maths task and had to finish is before Friday morning. After that I decided to just do all of it in one or two days just so I don't have to rush, and try and finish it last minute. Any ways in this task was all based around fractions, decimals, & percentages. Enjoy

Dot Plot

This is one my last maths task for today and the week. In this task I learnt a lot about Dot Plot graphs. One thing I learnt is that the Information about the data can be read off directly from the dot plot. Enjoy

Measurement and Statistics (Mr Jacobsen's Cycling journey).

This is a DMIC task based on Mr. Jacobsen's cycling ride from school to home and back, as well as measurement and statistics. To overcome this problem, I used multiplication. I also collaborated with my buddies on the math problem!

Strip Graph

We've been given a variety of maths exercises to pick from this week, and I choose the strip graph activity for today.

Area and Volume of 2D and 3D shapes.

This is one of the math assignments I needed to do, and it deals with the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes.

Stem & Leaf Graph

This is one of my few maths task for today. In this task I was able to gather alot more knowledge about the Stem and Leaf graph. The few things I learnt is that, Steam and leaf graph is probably the most easiest way to organise data, and it could only work with numbers. Enjoy

Tree Diagram

Our goal for this week is to complete all of the Math tasks. Today I completed the Tree Diagram task along with many other maths task.

Pie Graph

This is a pie graph presentation in math. In this presentation, I responded to a question about data in a pie chart. I also had to create some pie charts on my own. I also received some help with this task as well. Enjoy

Adding Rational Numbers

This is my task that I have completed today. Adding Rational Numbers is what I had to work on. I had to add minus fractions and decimals together to have a complete answer. Enjoy.

Time Series

This is my other maths task I've completed. Time series was what I had to work on. This was pretty challenging but I was able to complete it in time.

Prime & Comp

This is a sample of my math homework. I was able to have a better understanding of Prime, Factor, and Composite numbers. This was a difficult task, but I was able to complete it successfully. Enjoy

Box & Whisker

I learned about Range, Median, and IQR for today's math activity. I had to finish a few slides in which I had to answer questions concerning the largest range, percentages, and true or false statements. It was a fantastic lesson throughout the entire activity. Enjoy

Mean, Median, Mode & Range

The completed slides for the mean, median, mode, and range maths task can be found here. I watched a video that showed me how to calculate the mean, median, mode, and range of data that we had to deal with. Enjoy

E Haere Ana Koe Ki Hea ?

This is my Te Reo task for the week. The question for this week is "E haere ana koe ki hea". Which means where you you going?. I had to figure out the Maori pronunciation for certain types of flags. For example if it were a Tongan flag, I then had to figure out how to say it in Maori. I also did a create task, which was a comic strip and a voice over of me saying the phrases I learnt from today's lesson.

Inaianei he aha te mahi?

This is the week's te reo assignment. We had to work out the protocols for a Marae and put them in order for this task. Take a look at my response.

Below is my creation task, in which I had to present the readers some of my home protocols and restrictions. Enjoy.

Most Common Car Colours

Most Common Car Colours

This maths post is also from the Bar and Histogram graph task. I had to create a bar graph resembling the most common car colours. Enjoy 

 

Bar Graph: Number of fruits the student at camp preferred.

Number Of furit the students at Camp Preferred. 

I had to create a bar graph as one of the follow up task from my previous post.

Bar and Historgram Graph

This is my maths task for today. Which is based on Bar and Historgram graphs. This is very fun to do . Enjoy

Electives

This is how we spent today's electives. In tiktok Tipene, we show off our moves while having a good time:)

 

He aha to Hiahia ?

This is the week's Te reo assignment. The major enquiry is "He aha to Hiahia," which translates to "What do you want?" in English. Completing this challenge was a lot of fun. We had to fill in the spaces and try and understand what a particular object meant in Maori. With my create task, I must take the terms that I learned today and apply them to my create task.

Writing: 100-word paragraph

Me and my brother were constantly arguing, we couldn't help but notice water dripping from the painting frame. "How is this- what is happening right now!" I screamed. My brother went to the opposite side of the room without hesitation, grabbing the painting and attempting to stop the situation, but no matter what my brother tried, it didn't work, and piles of water poured out of the picture frame, filling the entire room with water. It soon felt like we were in the middle of an ocean, because there was nothing but water gushing out from the image, which was bizarre.

The following is the description of my writing assignment for today. I had to choose any photo and write a 100-word piece about it as if it were alive. I couldn't think of anything to write about, so I just wrote about the movie Portal To Narnia, which is where the picture came to existence. Enjoy

Ordering Integers

This is my maths task for today. This was all about Ordering Integers. I got give numbers and I had to figure out what number was greater. Enjoy

Picture and Tally Charts

Today's math assignment is as follows. I could choose from a variety of math presentations to work on throughout the day. Picture and Tally charts was the task I chose. Enjoy.

He Aha Te Utu ?

This is my first Te Reo task for term 4. The main question this week was " He aha te utu ". Which in translation stands for What does it cost. For this task we had to fill in the banks to complete the sentence it was very fun, because we got to pick the price of each object. Below this description is my create task, I did a comic strip enjoy.

Maths: Two Way Probability Tables

This is my first maths task for term 4. We had choices to choose what maths task we wanted to work on, but since it was the first day, we all had to do this task which is about two way probability tables. Enjoy.

Translation

This week in math, Room 4 is learning about coordinates and translation. Please feel free to give a compliment or feedback.

Classifying Numbers

These are my maths task for this week. This task was based around classifying numbers. Overall this task was kinda hard to do, but im just happy I was able to finish it. Enjoy

Kei Hea Koe ?

This is another Te Reo task I decided to finish throughout the pandemic. The main question for this task is Kei Hea Koe? which means where are you? I had to figure out where the people are in the picture, but i had do it in Maori. Enjoy

The Coordinate Plane

This week for maths room 4 did a task based around coordinates and translation. If you enjoyed this feel free to leave a positive comment.

CSI Files

This is a Crime Scene work that my class had to complete on our own; it was based on criminals and also included mathematics. Enjoy

1.1 Toku Whakapapa

This is one of many Te Reo task I was working on throughout the lock down. This task was based around our whakapapa which is basically who my family are. This was a very fun task to finish, because I like to do tasks based around my family. And for my create task I had to record myself saying some of the phrases I learnt from this task. Enjoy.

Laundry Basket Advert

Today's literacy assignment is as follows. I had to choose something from around my house and create an advertisement for it. I took a look around and decided to put up an ad for my washing basket. This is the result of my brainstorming. With this advertisement, I wanted to convey to my readers that this particular laundry basket not only has a great capacity, but it is also lightweight. Enjoy

 

Persuasive Writing

I am convinced that John Cena is one of the many successful people in the world today. John Cena, also known as "The Prototype," is a professional wrestler, actor, and television personality who goes by the nickname of "The Prototype.”

John Cena has accomplished a lot in his life, from winning championships to appearing in some of the most popular films. John Cena has also been travelling across the world. India, China, and Paris, to mention a few. But, of all the places John Cena has visited, the Tamaki Kitchen, also known as the Whare Kai, is his favourite and the one he visits the most.

But there was one thing about John Cena: he was deodorant-obsessed to the point of obsession. John is so obsessed with deodorant that if he were stranded on a desert island, the only thing he would want is deodorant.

John Cena made it a rule that he would be the only one in the Whare Kai who could wear deodorant. With all of his achievements, everyone decided that he should be the only one in the Whare Kai who used deodorant.

The following is an example of my quirky/weird persuasive writing. I had to incorporate Deodorant, John Cena, and the Tamaki kitchen/Whare Kai in my writing. This was a great enjoyable writing assignment for me because it was unique and I enjoy persuasive writing. I have to persuade my readers that John Cena should be the only person in the Tamaki Kitchen who can use deodorant. Enjoy.

About Me Poster : CyberSmart

This is a poster that I created about me. The top three images are of our family that we have taken over the years. Underneath those family images are the sports that I participate in and enjoy. Rugby and Netball are two of the most sports that I like. Because it is my culture, I have included a Tongan and Samoan flag below. And there's a portrait of me in the middle. Enjoy

Socks Advert

 This is my literacy task I did for today. I had to my a ad about anything that has to do with something in the classroom. I decided to choose socks, because I knew no one would choose that object. I wanted to make my advert simple, but one everyone can remember. Enjoy

Emma Twigg

This is my reading task for this week. I had to read and research the Olympian Emma Twigg. During this task I actually learnt heaps about her. Shes a rower, and her personal life was very interesting as well. Enjoy

Kei hea a Amo ?

 This is my Te Reo task for this week. The main question is Kei hea a Amo ? Which in translation is where is amo. In this task I had to understand, and use, location words.

Below is my create task. I did a comic strip about this task. Enjoy

Dames Valerie Adams Diet

This is my quick meal plan for the Dames Valerie Adams Diet, as far as I can tell. According to my research, she claims that when she plans her meals, she eats a healthier and more balanced diet. I know the dinners, are at least the closest things to what she eats, based on what I learned. I suppose it's the same for breakfast and lunch. Enjoy

 

Extension Term 3 - Controversial Topic

This was my responsibility for the extension period. First, we discussed what constitutes a controversial topic. "Referees and Umpires - How do they choose who will umpire and is that person neutral in their decisions?" was the topic we chose. My group did study on what referees do, and we had to figure out whether an umpire at the Olympics was being biassed. Enjoy

Versatile Volume

This is my maths task for this week. Enjoy.

Shot-Put

Today's inquiry task is this. I had the option of choosing any Olympic sport. Shot-put was my choice. I have to respond to questions that my teacher has posed to me. I designed a shot-put poster. Enjoy

 

Kei Te Pehea Koe ?

This is my Te Reo task for this week. This was based around feelings and emotions. The main question is Kei te pehea koe ? I had to learn the Maori words for sad, angry, happy etc. Below is my create task, I made a comic strip. Enjoy

Immersion Assembly

 Today was the first day back at school for Term 3. If you've been updated with the sports, you would probably already have heard that the Olympics are currently on, and that's what this term's theme is based on, " Healthy Me , Healthy You ". 

As always we started the day off with our Immersion Assembly. On the first day, the whole school usually gets together to see what each teams movie or item , and also to know what they will be learning about this year. 

My favourite item was team 5. Not to be bias but the reason why I liked team 5's item was because it was funny, and also it was very interesting to watch. In the team 5 item they were 3 athletes from 3 different country's USA, Australia, and New Zealand, they had each performed a routine in front of the whole school. Out of all of the routines I really enjoyed watching the country Australia, because it was funny and entertaining. But the overall winner was New Zealand. 

Overall the Immersion Assembly was very fun, and I'm looking forward to what we will be learning about this term. 

He aha te tae o te makawe?

This is my Te Reo task for this week. The main question about this task is, " He aha te tae o te makewe ? ". The question means " what colour is your hair ". This was a pretty fun task to finish , knowing I knew my colours in Te reo well. Enjoy .

Here is my create task , I decided to do a comic strip , Enjoy.

Matariki

Here is my create task I did today with one of my classmates. Because it is Matariki day , we decided to make a task based around Matariki. With these facts, I learnt that Matariki is a star cluster. Enjoy , and hope you learnt something new.

Practical Percentages

This is my maths task for this week. We were given the task to calculate percentages. This task was pretty hard, and I was able to work some of my classmates to get it done. Enjoy !! 

K.P.M.G Trip.

Yesterday, the Extension group went to K.P.M.G along with a few other people in team 5. We were lucky enough to have Miss West and Mr Jacobsen come along with us, they made good sure everthing was organised, made sure we were polite, and overall made sure we all had fun. In this writing I'll be sharing one of my highlights from the trip.

My main highlight from the day was doing my experiment. All of us got into groups, our group name was Earth, the other group names were Fire, Air, and Water. Each group was give a experiment to do based around our group names. For our experiment we had to make oobleck, which is basically just cornstarch and water mixed together. Making my oobleck I noticed, if you added pressure to it, it would feel solid, and add less pressure it would become a liquid. It was very fun but also frustarting, mainly because when I would mix the ingredients my sticks would break. But overall it was so fun. 

Lastly, thank KMPG for provided a awesome trip for us. And I hope the next few people who come on the trip will have alot in not more fun than we had.  

Thinking Critically

This is my literacy work I did this Morning. This task was all bout thinking critically. Enjoy.

Perfect Perimeter

This is my mats task for this week. This task is based around Perimeter and Area. Enjoy

Tornado Hits South Auckland

This is my second reading task for today. This article I really wanted to read about, because it happened just two days ago around South Auckland. All the information is in these slides. Enjoy, and feel free to visit the site, to see what amazing and interesting articles they have.

Huge Sink Hole Appears In Mexico

This is my reading task for this week. This week, we don't have any reading books to focus on. So with that, the whole of team 5 are reading articles from the Kiwi Kids News Read Off. I will just be reading different articles for the site and answering question. My article that I picked was basically about a Hole that suddenly appeared in Mexico. Enjoy

Dazzling Decimals

Flash Addition!

 114 + 97 = 211

 93 + 289= 382

 128 + 87 = 215

163 + 84 = 247

 311 + 93 = 404

Change to fractions and decimals

1. 21% -  0.21  21/100

2. 19% - 0.19 19/100

3. 35% - 0.35 35/100

4. 63% 0.63 63/100

5. 40% 0.40 40/100

6. 15% 0.15 15/100

7. 75% 0.75 75/100

8. 83% 0.83 83/100

9. 7%  0.7 7/100

10. 1% 0.1 01/100

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Change to percentages

½ = 50%

⅗ =  60%

17/20= 85%

41/ 50= 82%

7/10 = 70%

⅓=   33.333333333333333333333333

⅚= 25

14/35= 40% 

1/25=  4%

5/50 = 10%

21/76 = 55%

1. 35 + 97 = 132

2. 3.25 - 1.17= 2.08

3. 2 × -8 = -16

4. 5 × (2 + 4 × 3) = 70

5. 5.789 - 1.345 = 4.444

6. 1.789 - 0.987 = 0.802

7. 1.67 + 5.895 = 7.565

8. 1.578  + 2.654 = 4.322

9. 7.678 - 3.567 = 4.111

10. 4.789 + 1.678 = 6.467

This is may maths task for this term. We doing this task, I learnt how to add decimals, convert fractions into percentage, and covert fractions into decimals. Hope your learnt something knew reading this task. Enjoy

Why does Matter matter ?

 The three basic properties of matter are volume, mass, and shape.

All matter is made up of tiny particles called atoms.

Volume is the amount of Space that matter takes up.

Mass is the amount of Matter an object has.

The three basic properties of matter are volume, mass, and shape.

Liquids take the shape of their container.

Gases do not have a definite shape or volume.

Liquids do not have a definite shape, but they do have a definite volume.

Solids have a definite shape.

An ice and chair are examples of solids.

Water and Milk are examples of Liquids.

Oxygen and helium are examples of gas.

Solid ice is melting when it is changing into a liquid.

This is the task I did this morning. We had to answer questions based around Matter. A fact I learnt during this task is, the three states of matter are liquid, solid, and gas. Enjoy

Colosseum Report !

                                      

 Colosseum ! A historical landmark in Rome, Italy. The colosseum, is an oval amphitheater, which basically means, the Colosseum, is an open-air location which is used to show performances, sports and other occasions. 

Construction began in 72 AD, under the order of Vespian. The Colosseum was constructed by thousands of slaves, and was made with bricks, stones, and concrete. 8 years was the amount of time it took for the slaves to complete the buildings of the Colosseum. Once it was complete it could seat upto 50,000 people. During the 8 years of construction, Vespian had died. Vespian’s son, Emperor Titus, was given the honors of opening up the Colosseum. The Colosseum was the height of a 12 story house, and it’s 156 meters wide. 

The Roman Colosseum was used to entertain people with Gladiator battles, animal hunts, and mock naval battles, and Sea battles.  The first game, in the newly built Colosseum took up to about 100 days. These games helped keep the Emperor popular with the people of Rome. Loads of animals fought, and were killed, as the crowd cheered, everything to, elephants and tigers, to bears and bulls. Sinners were also executed there. Sometimes villains were used to reenact old myths and stories, where the characters would be attacked by animals. With everything that happened in the Colosseum, gladiator battles attracted everyone. They battle against each other, for the entertainment of the viewers. Elite gladiators could become celebrities drawing huge crowds, and collecting riches, that would grant them to retire in comfort, assuming they’d live a longer life. 

Other than the gladiator battles, a more splendid performance was the Mock Sea Battles, which was also called Naumachia. The colosseum was built on a false lake, and underneath it had channels that could transfer water to the Colosseum. They used the water to flood the area floor, until the water was deep enough that real ships could sail on it. Once the sea battles ended, the Colosseum was drained quickly, so that the next event that occurred would take place on dry land. In the Colosseum these sea battles only lasted for a short amount of time.

Remember readers, these are just a few facts I wanted to share with you. Doing my research I found that the Colosseum is still a place where people can visit and learn about that area and what made it such a historic place. Overall I hope from this Information Report, you readers have learnt something new !

The Jacket: Part 3

This is Part 3 to the jacket book. This task is based around what being Prejudice means and how did it relate to the story. Enjoy 

Watch Your Mouth

This is the movie our Prefects created for this weeks korero. The korero for this week is Watch Your Mouth. Which basically means , to watch what you say to people, and to be kind to one another. Enjoy our Movie, and the bloopers. 

The Jacket ( Part 2 )

This is Part 2 , of The Jacket. This task was more about , how you think the characters would act. This was a really fun task to finished , and im excited to finish part 3 off. Enjoy .

The Jacket ( Part 1 )

 

 This is part one to my reading task. The book I've been reading is called " The Jacket ". I had to predict what chapter one was about , and then I had to read the chapter, and see what it really was about. I have 2 more parts to this story and I've been really excited to read more. Enjoy .

Fraction Star

This is my maths task for this week . This is all about Simplifying , and Multiplying fractions. Enjoy

3.4 Kei Hea A ?

This here, is my Te reo task I was given for this week. The main question of this task is Kei Hea A. I had to find different places around New Zealand, and the Maori translation for it. Below this, is my create task, I had to make my own comic strip , based around this task. Enjoy.

Planet Earth and Beyond ( Planing )

Today we did our extension work on the questions we planned a couple of weeks ago, stay tuned because it is not yet finished! thank you!

Kauearanga Valley Christian Camp ( Reflection )

 From the 19th of May to the 21st, our year 8's including me, took part in a leadership camp. The camp was called Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp. We were all split into 4 groups. Each group was named after something that had to do with the camp site. The groups were Thames, Coromandel, Kauaeranga, and Kauri. I was in group Kauri. 

We had a heap mount of rotation. Two of my favourites, was the Flying Fox, and Ax throwing. My group, unfortunately didnt have a full rotation on the Flying Fox, but majority of us was able to have a turn. We had to go on the flying fox holding a red ball. As were getting closer to the end, there was a blue container. We all had to try to attempt to chuck the ball in the container, it was super fun. I got the ball in on my second try.

Ax throwing was my other favourite activity. We had to each have practice trys, before we had to make our own target. With all my trys I was able to get 2 ax's to stick on the wood. The thing I learnt in Ax throwing is to try different throws, to see which one actually worked.

Overall Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp was a amazing experience. It showed me ways on how to be an amazing leader to my peers and others, but it also helped my get out of my comfort zone. 

My Leadership Goals

This is an inquiry based task. The two slides I did were all about leadership. I had to write, how I've been a leader around my peers and others, and how I can do better. Enjoy.

Streets For Everyone

  Today we went around the streets and had a look at our projects that we were working on last term. When we started walking, that first project we saw was my project, me Simon, and Oalii's project, we were very amazed at the project because it was very cool, the first picture we saw, was a Lizard, we had to try and complete the lizard using the letters, we had to try and spell out the street names, but before we did that we had to figure out what the street name was. The street names were 'Holland' and 'Waddell'. The other picture we came across was a fantail, probably the symbol of our school. I couldn't possibly remember what the street names were, because I have to admit it, I wasn't paying that much attention to the words/street names, because I was just colouring it in with the chalk. Right now you might get bored, so I'm gonna end it off here, go and check out my classes blogs to see what else we looked at.

Information Report - Planet Mars.

 Mars! Mars is the fourth planet in our solar system, and also holds the largest mountain, which is 3x larger than Mt Everest! This information report is based all around planet Mars. 

Mars is known as the red planet. This signature colour comes from a chemical, known as iron oxide. Another reason why the planet Mars is red, is from rust, which causes the soil and atmosphere to look red. This is also the reason why they named the planet Mars. Mars is named after the ancient Romans for their god of war, mainly because its reddish colour resembles blood.

Mars is the fourth planet in our solar system, as already said. And its distance from the sun is 315.32 million km. 4.603 billion, is how old Mars is, and was found in the year 1610. Did you know, there were 18 missions to Mars ? And all those missions were successful.

There are two moons that Mars has, which are Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is the innermost and bigger moon of Mars. Phobos is named after the Greek God Phobos, and a son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the twin brother of Deimos. Deimos, is the outermost of the two moons. Deimos’s distance between Mars is 23, 460 km, much further than the other moon.

Remember readers, there is way more information about Planet Mars. Who knows, maybe one day we might have to live on Mars. Overall hope you enjoyed reading this report, and I also hope you learnt something new as well.

This was my writing task for this week. I had to write a information report based on planet Mars. This was a fun task to do, hope you enjoyed, and learnt something new aswell.

Planet Mars

This is my literacy task for this week. This task was based on planet Mars. This task was given to us to finish throughout the week.

Here is my create task, I worked on throughout the week.

Improper Fractions

This is another one of my maths task for this week. What we had to do for this task was to convert between mixed and improper fractions. Hope you enjoyed, and hoped you enjoyed something new from this post. 

Fresh Fractions

             Fresh Fractions

We are learning to find fractions of a whole and of a set.

We are learning to add and subtract fractions

What is 1/4 of 4?  1

What is ¼ of 8? 2

What is ⅓ of 6? 2

What is 2/6 of 12? 4

What is ¼ of 20? 5

What is 1/10 of 20 ? 2

What is ⅔ of 30? 20

What is ⅕ of 25? 5

4 of us are sharing a chocolate cake. What do we cut it up into? 4 quarters  

12 of us are sharing a chocolate cake. What do we cut it up into? 12 pisces

I have 5/16 of a cake at a birthday party. I keep going back for more and eat another  6/16 of a cake. What fraction of a cake have I eaten altogether?   11/16

I have 10/21 of a cake left over from the party. Then I give 6/21 of a cake to my sisters. What fraction of a cake do I have left over? 4/21

⅓ + ⅔ = 3/3

¾ + ¾ = 1.5

⅕ + ⅗ = 4/5

⅘ - ⅗ = 1/5

5/10 - 1/10 = 4/10

55/60 - 40/60 = 15/60

12/20 + 17/20 =  1.45 

This is one of my maths task for this week. This task is based around fractions. Hope you enjoy, and hoped you learnt something new aswell.